Veteran Journalist Rajat Sharma has filed a defamation case in the Delhi High Court against Congress leaders Ragini Nayak, Jairam Ramesh and Pawan Khera over their allegations that he used abusive language during a live show on the day of Lok Sabha election results.
Rajat Sharma has sought interim relief to restrain the Congress leaders from making allegations against him. He has sought directions to take down the related videos with immediate effect from X and other social media intermediaries.
The bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna on Friday reserved the order on the interim application to restrain Congress leaders from making these allegations.
Congress spokesperson Ragini Nayak had accused Sharma of abusing her on television on June 4, the day votes were counted for the Lok Sabha polls. Jairam Ramesh and Khera had made remarks on the issue on X.
Senior Advocate Maninder Singh appeared for Rajat Sharma and submitted that abusive language was not used by the senior journalist. He also submitted that the allegations made against Sharma were “baseless and are cooked up”.
Singh said the show was telecast live on June 4 and no issues were raised by the Congress leaders but later, after six days, the issue was brought to the fore. He further pointed out that the tweets made and the allegations levelled against him were damaging his reputation.
On June 11, Rajat Sharma addressed the allegations levelled against him by the Congress Party. Sharma, in his statement, termed the allegations a conspiracy to slander his name and reputation as a journalist.
